It’s been over 30 years since the release of “Dookie,” the album that made Green Day famous, and to celebrate, the band has…unpacked it?
In the world of video games, we all know about remakes, in fact we probably know too much about them now. Some musicians occasionally put out new versions of old albums, even if just to improve the sound quality a little, but to celebrate Dookie’s 30th anniversary, Green Day decided to unpack it. “When an album reaches a major milestone like its 30th anniversary, it gets the usual remastering in the usual format,” reads the trailer introducing Dookie Demastered.
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“But ‘Dookie’ is no ordinary album. Rather than smoothing its edges and tweaking its dynamic range, this version of ‘Dookie’ has been carefully transformed to fit the lo-fi of everything from wax cylinders to answering machines to toothbrushes.” True Degree format. The experience is unparalleled, sacrificing not only sound quality, but also convenience and sometimes the entire verse.”
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You might be thinking “this is ridiculous” and you’d be right, but yes, Green Day have actually put 15 of Dookie’s tracks on 15 different techniques, old and new. For example, the most famous track on the album, “Basket Case,” was put into Big Mouth Billie Bass, you know, that fun two-minute singing fish. There’s also Have A Blast on a floppy disk, which you can listen to on a website that unpacks the album, and it sounds like it’s the highest 144p thing in existence.
Perhaps most interestingly, they put “Welcome to Paradise,” another classic song from the album, on the original Game Boy. Unfortunately for you, you don’t have a chance to get it right now, as you have to enter a lottery to win it, and there are only 25 copies of the Game Boy cartridge. Hopefully one of these 25 winners (who, oddly enough, actually still have to pay for it) shares it with the rest of us to get a closer look at it.
My personal favorite is the Longview Doorbell, and there’s only one of it, so I’m sure any Green Day fan who gets their hands on this doorbell will feel a little smug every time they receive it.
